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Listeroid Engines / 14hp Power Soultions low on power?
« on: November 15, 2011, 03:52:53 PM »
   I have a 14-1 power solutions listeroid with a ST-12 generator. I got it in 2006 and only have about 20 hrs on it. When I lost power at home it had no problem running the whole house, window air conditioner and  6.5 hp 60 gal campbell housfield  air compressor.

   But I took it to the farm to run a 15" planner 3 hp and a dust collector 1hp. And it just cannot maintain voltage. I start the planner and the engine luges right down Dropping from 240 volts to 210. And while it was planing cedar it was lugging down to 220v. And when I put in a 7" wide spruce board in the planner Dropping from 1000 rpm to around 700 until I could hit the stop switch. While it was smoking a little it was not rolling black smoke out the exhaust.

   If I figured it right 14hp is 9800 watt so I figured real world out put should be 8000 to 9000 watts 0r 35 to 40 amps 220. But it did not trip the 20 amp breaker on the pannel. I don't think I am expecting too much by running 4hp of electric motors off a 14 hp engine. Or does a 14hp single cylinder just not have enough power strokes a minute to keep up.

   This engine is entirely stock other than replacing the fuel lines which decomposed and I replaced. I don't know if the injector timing may be off, bad spring on the govener, Injector rack not opening enough or something else entirely.

   I really hope this engine is enough to do the job and you all can help me get it up to snuff. While I do have a 20hp changfa I can put on it I would much rather keep the lister and have it do what I need it to.

Sorry about the blurry picture all I had was a cheep cell phone camera.



But I am glad it was able to get my cedar planned and I was able to get my new front porch built on my bunkhouse.



Billy


   

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Changfa Engines / Another changfa generator setup
« on: September 22, 2010, 09:09:21 PM »
Its funny how all these generators start looking alike after a while. Here's the one we have running at out off grid farm. 1195 changfa driving a ST12 generator head. Since we didn't need all the power it will put out we belted it down to just under 1000 rpm. Turning that slow the governor doesn't work much if at all. But since its main job is charging the forklift battery and the load is pretty much constant we just set the engine speed by the volt meter.



When we set it up we ran the generator all the time when we needed power. But 1.5 years ago we got a 5000 watt power inverter and a small forklift battery. We run off the battery and charge it up every 3-4 days. It take about 5 hrs to charge back up and 2 to 2.5 gallons of diesel.



There are two small solar panels on it but that just takes care of battery losses and doesn't add much to my net power.

Billy

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Listeroid Engines / Dancing with a lister
« on: December 11, 2009, 11:21:21 PM »
Howdy ya all

I am glad I found this form. From what little I have read here so far ya know a lot. And there's a lot I need to learn!

You're probably wondering what up with the silly title of this post. Well it goes back to when I first got my 14-1 lister. My brother had a 6-1 and he started it up on the pallet for me and I thought it was great! But I did not feel it had enough power for what I wanted. So he found the 14-1 powersolutions lister. It took the normal forever to un crate it. And even though I was told not to start it on the pallet I could not wait to hear it. So after I opened it up and cleaned it out I started it on the shipping pallet. After all my brother had no problems with it. I was a little afraid of it and it took me 4-5 spin ups before I got it over the compression stroke. On the fourth chuff it started lifting the pallet off the ground. So I grabbed the fuel shut off and flipped it. But the engine did not slow down. My first thought was that it was hung up so I flipped back on then off again. About the third time I did this I noticed it got quieter when I flipped it off and I realized that I had 300lbs of flywheel spinning and its not just going to come to a stop like a car :o Well the floor in my old garage is cracked and broke up and not at all level. And when all this was done I had chased it six feet across the garage floor. I was telling some of my friends about it and one of the older guys on my farmall cub tractor site always wants to come out and in his words Dance with the Lister.

My younger brother runs a lazer pattern burner at work and was able to putin a personal project slip and make me custom engine and generator plate.



Lister engine setup with air bag suspension



My youngest brother made the serpentine belt pulley for the generator. And the engine runs about 975 rpm at 60hz



A bunch of people wanted to see it so I took it to one of our farmall cub only tractor shows. I am trying to use a 12v starter generator to start it with. But right not it does not have enough power unless I have a battery charger on it.

 Does anyone know of any problems I may have to address with the powersolutions engine?

Thanks Billly

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